The Playboy Of The Western World on Video - 2011

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 12, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The National Theatre has released a first look at the cast of The Playboy of the Western World.

Considered the first Irish “state of the nation” play, it’s now turned into a historical vignette imbued with hoarse black comedy.

National Theatre Live has announced its next slate of productions releasing to cinemas worldwide in 2026, including two National Theatre productions captured from the Lyttelton stage on London’s South Bank and the re-release of a fan-favourite.

First look images have been released for the second season of the comedy series Big Mood, starring West End alum Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West.

The National Theatre has released the first look at the cast of The Playboy of the Western World in rehearsals.

City Lit will celebrate the holidays with the world premiere production of John Weagly's SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS CLOWNS, a mystery adapted from the short story “The Flying Stars” by G.

The National Theatre has announced full casting for The Playboy of the Western World, a story of youth and self-discovery by John Millington Synge.

City Lit Theater has announced a cohort of Artistic Associates for the first time in its 45-year history.

Legendary Irish actor Stephen Rea takes on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in a revelatory new production directed by Vicky Featherstone.

Actor Tom Wright, a veteran of stage, television and film, will star in the psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest.

Playwright Andrea Aptecker will premiere her psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest this month.

Inis Nua Theatre Company and Tiny Dynamite have joined forces to present the Philadelphia premiere of Square Go, a high-energy, coming-of-age comedy by Scottish playwrights Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair.

Paul Mescal and Nicola Coughlan will make their National Theatre debuts as part of incoming artistic director Indhu Rubasingham’s first season.

Inis Nua Theatre Company, Philadelphia’s home for contemporary Irish plays, is presenting the regional premiere of a new adaptation of  John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World.

Whether by design or coincidence, The Rogue Theatre kicks off its 20th season with a vivid and prophetic opener: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by Thornton Wilder, a playwright acclained for his fierce deconstruction of 20th-century norms.

Inis Nua Theatre Company has announced the regional premiere of a new adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, by acclaimed writers Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle.

All new photos have been released of Robert Sheehan as Withnail and Adonis Siddique as Marwood in Withnail at I at Birmingham Rep.

City Lit Theater has announced its programming for the 2024-25 season, the company’s 44th.

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced that Giles Terera and Michael Benz join the cast of the European première of Paul Grellong's Power of Sail, directed by Dominic Dromgoole.

Quintessence Theatre Group extends the run of John-Paul Satre's 'No Exit' through November 5.

Quintessence Theatre Group extends George Bernard Shaw’s 'Major Barbara' at the Sedgwick Theater in Philadelphia.

Livin' Dred Theatre presents the World Premiere of Super-Bogger by award-winning writer Clare Monnelly.

The cast and crew have been announced for the World Premiere adaptation of THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, opening on October 29.

Quintessence Theatre Group launches Season XIV of epic theatre with George Bernard Shaw’s stinging comedy Major Barbara and Jean-Paul Sartre’s fierce take on the afterlife, No Exit.

Get all the details on the highly anticipated productions of 'The Amen Corner' and 'The Clearing' at the Shaw Festival.

The Ballad of Truman Capote, written and directed by Andrew O'Hagan, starring Patrick Moy as Truman Capote is coming to Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

The Shaw Festival’s 2023 season is continuing with Bernard Shaw’s The Apple Cart and Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit.

City Lit Board President Daniel Robinson announced that Brian Pastor (they/them), City Lit’s current Resident Director and for nine years its Managing Director, will succeed City Lit’s Producer and Artistic Director Terry McCabe, who will retire on June 30, 2024, following the conclusion of City